Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for April 3

Hollow floor and junk, XS4ALL, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.JPG by Cory Doctorow on Flickr

Welcome to the Long Weekend, kittens! While you’re hunting for Easter eggs and quietly digesting chocolate with your family, remember: hackers believe in no gods but themselves. You think some Palestinian or Chinese kid in a cinderblock hut cares that IT has the weekend off? HA! We’ll just see whether the weekend brings another Playstation attack, or the first day back at work sees you frantically scrambling to patch holes in your system the entire graduating class of Eastern European Hacker Academy exploited over the past four days.